Famous Quotes & Sayings

Glenn Hoddle

I've spoken to Jackie and there is nothing in it. Jackie has just bought a house down here and he has no problems with the club.

Ted Parrish

This is forcing demand and could cause the same problems we had in the 1990s where companies bought more than they should have,

Michael Woolfolk

The weekend 'No' vote was deemed to be negative for the euro and has sent the euro/dollar into a new trading range. It is quite possible that in the coming weeks we could get as low as $1.20 before the market decides that it has bought enough dollars for the time being.

Akira Takei

The weakness in the housing market is going to prevail, and that is a harbinger of things to come for the rest of the economy. I bought Treasuries yesterday and plan to buy some more in the new year.

Vyacheslav Lysakov

This government resolution infringes upon our rights. People bought cars, paid high customs duties, are paying taxes, and in an hour they have become outlawed.

Luther Jackson

That's what we've been working on since Dec. 22, and clearly we're very much in the game at this point. Once Knight Ridder said they weren't going to sell the newspapers piecemeal, we were in a holding pattern waiting until someone bought the whole thing.

James Wood

That's what they call these people from California and Nevada. They bought a home in 1975 in Santa Monica for $110,000. It's now worth $800,000. They've paid it off. What they plan on doing is taking the money out and retiring.

Anne Sweeney

A la carte is not good for consumers, and we have experience to prove it. Disney Channel was once offered a la carte, but only a privileged few bought it despite the tremendous strength of our brand. Today, Disney Channel is in 87 million homes on expanded basic, and instead of putting our money towards marketing to retain subscribers, we are instead investing it in high quality programming.

John Calipari

The Missouri Valley Conference bought games. And they all have winning records. Did I (say) that they all played tough teams? No. Look at their non-conference schedules.

Nancy Kress

Readers want to visualize your story as they read it. The more exact words you give them, the more clearly they see it, smell it, hear it, taste it. Thus, a dog should be an 'Airedale,' not just a 'dog.' A taste should not be merely 'good' but 'creamy and sweet' or 'sharply salty' or 'buttery on the tongue.'

Cass Sunstein

People who know him in Washington, D.C., of various ideological stripes, say this is not the type to be a fundamentalist. He is clearly extremely able, and his opinions are real lawyers' opinions.

Michael Conforti

The surprise happens as you experience the building. This is clearly a reason why we thought Mr. Ando was the appropriate person for our landscape here.

George Nathan

No man thinks clearly when his fists are clenched.

Cherry Jones

Sometimes the hardest part I think for actors on '24' is some of the jargon and getting the ideas and the thoughts and the information out quickly enough and succinctly enough and clearly enough.

Bob Loevy

Routinely, members of Congress who want to get reelected raise a lot of money to scare challengers out of the race. Joel Hefley clearly did not do that in 2005, and suddenly he has an opponent.

Holly Cartner

Russia has joined forces with other states that have poor human rights records in opposing efforts to create a more effective U.N. human rights machinery. Many of these countries clearly prefer today's dysfunctional system that allows them to shield one another from criticism.

Brendan Barnicle

SAP is clearly taking share in the applications market and that's hurting PeopleSoft and Oracle, ... This is exactly the time for investors to get involved in SAP.

Mark Constant

Schwab is clearly the more likely to survive.

Michael Bennet

Often times, political games prevent senators from even beginning to debate some of the most important issues.

Eric Bagley

The Montpelier-U-32 game is always a tough game. They're going to come out and play as hard as they can.

Andre Muse

Defensively, we really tried to shut them down. They have troubles scoring in the half-court offense, so we tried to slow the tempo of the game down.

Lauri Hakala

Defensively, he reads the game better than any other libero. He's very technical and he's very good all-around. He can pass all kinds of serves. He doesn't have any weaknesses that stand out so nobody can go after him.

Tony Parker

Definitely. It was tough in overtime. Maybe we ran out of gas. But we should've won the game before that. We had it.

Chris Gardocki

Cole is old enough that he'll be able to remember this when he gets older. Being able to take him into the locker room after the game was really cool.

Nykesha Sales

Any win on the road, when it's a three game series, is important,

Skip Harlicka

An indescribable feeling. I had never been involved in a game like that. Just 16 months before I had been in high school.

Jim Calhoun

And the Elvin Hayes-Jabbar game at the Astrodome, that was something I was thinking about for days.

Mike Bauer

We're holding our own pretty well. I thought we'd be depleted, but the meltdown is more at road level.

Kris Grawitch

We're holding a pre-construction open house so people can see what we don't have.

Russ Tanner

Big Dan's kind of holding it over our heads.

Rick Soracco

Those two are going to score. It's just a matter of holding the other ones down a bit.

Estella Olguin

We think his name is David, but we don't know. He doesn't talk. He is very clingy. He will not let go of whoever is holding him.

Jim Haslett

What am I going to do about a holding call?

Gary Edwards

We were just holding on. When we tried to get that push, we just didn't have it.

Peter Cardillo

Obviously, Alcoa really disappointed the market today. But we've also had a big run-up since the start of the year, and considering that, I think stocks are holding up pretty well.

Robert Kenny

He was a strong person. He looked after his kids. We're holding on OK.

Richard Harris

Knight without fear and without reproach.

George R. R. Martin

Lords are gold and knights steel, but two links can't make a chain. You also need silver and iron and lead, tin and copper and bronze and all the rest, and those are farmers and smiths and merchants and the like. A chain needs all sorts of metals, and a land needs all sorts of people.

Geoffrey Chaucer

Habit maketh no monk, ne wearing of gilt spurs maketh no knight.

Trenton Lee Stewart

Remember the White Knight.

Walter Dellinger

I wanted to be a rock-and-roller, ... Not even a star, but one of the back -ups, like a Pip in Gladys Knight and the Pips.

Lauren Oliver

So are you going to be my knight in shining armor or what?' Kent does a little bow. 'You know I can't resist a damsel in distress.

John Keats

Oh what can ail thee, knight-at-arms, Alone and palely loitering?

Patrick Stewart

The knights of the theater represented to me not only the pinnacle of the profession but the esteem in which the profession was held. To find myself, to my astonishment, in that company is the grandest thing that has professionally happened to me.

Richard Gilhooly

There's nothing surprising in this when you see day after day after day after day, 3,000, 5,000, 10,000 layoffs, ... So if anyone's shocked by this, they haven't been reading the newspapers for the past three months.

Yoni Stern

Newspapers tell us all about our culture, even when they conflict.

Howard Kurtz

Newspapers are trying to use their own Web sites to provide 24-hour coverage, even though the old dinosaur, ink-on-paper version only comes out once a day.

Gary Pruitt

Newspapers are not dying. That's just wrong, and we are going to prove it wrong together.

Brad Adams

This is a pretty typical pattern for March.

Michael Ondaatje

If you look at Japanese film, it is made up of collage or bricolage, it is made up of lists, and suddenly when you stand back from the lists you begin to see the pattern of a life.

Maya Lin

To fly, we have to have resistance. It's all about turbulence. Reacting to images of wave patterns in fluid motion.

Fred Hoyle

I have little hesitation in saying that as a result a sickly pall now hangs over the big bang theory. As I have mentioned earlier, when a pattern of facts becomes set against a theory, experience shows that it rarely recovers.

Isak Dinesen

To me, the explanation of life seems to be its melody, its pattern. And I feel in life such an infinite, truly inconceivable fantasy.

Ursula K. Le Guin

All knowledge is local, all truth is partial. No truth can make another truth untrue. All knowledge is part of the whole knowledge. Once you have seen the larger pattern, you cannot go back to seeing the part as the whole.

John Locke

Beware how in making the portraiture thou breakest the pattern: for divinity maketh the love of ourselves the pattern; the love of our neighbours but the portraiture.

Bill Doran

Weather patterns change; we need to be prepared for that.

Ben Schott

For me, photography only stopped because I was selling books.

Lee Ann Womack

When you come close to selling out, reconsider.

David Peel

We couldn't give it away or sell it. We didn't have permits.

Jeremy Robinson

Getting 10,000 listeners for a free podcast novel is a lot easier than selling 10,000 hardcover novels at $25 a pop.

Shane Smith

If not doing VICE, I probably would be selling Cokes on the beach in Vietnam. I like the sea.

Kay Granger

I started selling insurance in 1979 and continued doing that until 1985 when I opened my own insurance firm.

George Foreman

Learn to sell and you'll never starve

Mark Cuban

Get me selling and I can figure out the industry. Once I can figure out the industry I can start a business in that industry.

Pat Santoro

We're not selling on our past, we're selling on our future.

Mickey Blake

I've worked here since I was a kid. I've always been part of the business.

Gloria Naylor

Lord keep her safe since you can't keep her sane.

Corita Kent

Earnestness and sincerity are synonymous.

Maurice Denis

All that is necessary to paint well is to be sincere.

Isla Fisher

You know, I didn't get to go to university because I've been acting since I was a kid.

Jeff Hanna

Since it's in litigation, it just wouldn't be appropriate to talk about it.

John Foster

Since my Japanese isn't very good, I had to have an interpreter to communicate with most of the crew.

Roberto Galvan

I have been here since Sunday. We are waiting for the blow.

Janet Gamet

He's worked since he was 14 years old and he's 52.

Al Golden

You never know it as well as you think until you have to be the teacher,

Ian Millward

And, until we get that right, we're not going to win games.

F. Stone

You have to give them you until you is what they want.

Brian Leonard

Right now it is only a scare. We won't know until after the fact.

Mark Ellis

I just feel good. I didn't think anything of it until (Mark) Kotsay said, 'If you get a chance, keep running.

Robert Harrison

I'll be here every year until I die.

Ozzie Guillen

If not then he'll have to wait until Monday.

Carol Davis

If I was the council, I wouldn't want to wait until July. It's been too long.

Rita Ora

I never knew how small L.A. was until I started to work here.

David Troyer

Right now we're waiting on them and they're waiting on us.

Chris Ferris

This is one of the fundamental specifications the world has been waiting for,

Brian Austin Green

As of right now, I'm still waiting to meet Halle Berry. And she is single.

C. S. Lewis

If we let ourselves, we shall always be waiting for some distraction or other to end before we can really get down to our work.

Craig Ferguson

I can't wait to see the debate between Ryan and Joe Biden. Biden is said to be already trying out different strategies. So far the one that Obama likes is where Biden pretends to have food poisoning and they cancel the debate.

Bradley Whitford

Infuse your life with action...

Eckhart Tolle

The ego is just waiting to identify with anything. Whether it's your misery or being a great meditator, it seeks some identification.

Charles Bukowski

there are so many days when living stops and pulls up and sits and waits like a train on the rails.

Charles Bukowski

I tell you such fine music waits in the shadows of hell.